[Talk-GB] Adding Leeds Bins to OpenStreetMaps

[Silent Spike]

Hey,

I think this seems like a well planned and researched proposal. Personally
would be happy to see such an import - especially since you've already got
buy-in from the council.

Only really have two questions:
- Has the accuracy of the council data been evaluated at all? I'm
personally of the opinion that mostly accurate data is better than no data
so this is more just a curiosity.
- Could you specify those steps you'd be taking for conflation? I don't
doubt the ability to do so (this seems like a very competent proposal), but
just for transparency of the process.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:44 AM Patrick Lake <Patrick.Lake at odileeds.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
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> At ODI Leeds <https://odileeds.org/> we’re working with Leeds City
> Council to create an up-to-date, open dataset of bins and recycling points.
> Different parts of the council have different datasets about bins and
> recycling points – e.g the bins around Leeds market are maintained by a
> different department. Nobody has a full, exhaustive list of all of them, so
> we’d like to get them all in one place.
>
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> We think Open Street Maps would be perfect for this, as it’s ‘open by
> default’. We’re building them a tool using the API & OAuth so that council
> workers will be able to quickly add bins (amenity=waste_basket and
> amenity=recycling) from their phones. We’d also like to add their
> existing dataset <https://datamillnorth.org/dataset/litter-bin-locations>,
> which is published under OGLv3, to Open Street Maps. We have buy-in from
> Leeds City Council but under the import guidelines
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines> we also need
> community buy-in, and we’d really like some feedback from the OSM community.
>
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> Here’s a quick map we made
> <https://mapper.odileeds.org/?10/53.85050/-1.47903/datamill-38356ad9-a184-44c1-a4f0-055ac71356ec;osm-leeds-waste_basket>
> comparing the Leeds City Council dataset of bins (yellow markers) to the
> OSM amenity=waste_baskets for Leeds (black markers). We’re aware that there
> is probably duplicates so we’ll be taking steps to remove those.
>
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> We’d appreciate any comments or feedback.
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> Cheers,
>
> Patrick Lake
>
>
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> ODI Leeds
>
> patrick.lake at odileeds.org
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